19 Aristotle Quotes on Life

Aristotle quotes on life

37. If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

45. One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

57. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

62. Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

63. To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

65. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

86. Change in all things is sweet.

99. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

100. Happiness is a sort of action.

106. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

108. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

126. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

131. That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

150. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

152. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

154. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

156. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

167. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

173. 'We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.'